The Green Month

Delightful new versions of a great Welsh medieval poet’s lyrics – intimate, urgent and timeless.

Dafydd ap Gwilym, Wales’s greatest poet, explored love, desire and the natural world with startling frankness and virtuoso wit. In a sequence freely adapted from Dafydd’s work, Matthew Francis brings him to life for the modern English-speaking reader: as he waits in the woods for his lover, ogles the girls in church or causes chaos during a midnight assignation. Plants, birds and animals are fond...